from louis armstrong in the congo to duke ellington in india, america's best musicians have often servedour cultural ambassadors. chuck dee spoke alongside secretary blinken yesterday about why he's joining the effort. >> so, this is nutrition, it is beyond governments, plural, but the responsibility for governments in this world collectively, you don't want the music and the culture to be run by governments so it is not, nor do you want it to be run by industry. so, we as a culture in music have a wish and a demand and a dream to keep those two areas accountable, responsible and to balance out this earth to teach human beings true peace, not just in talk, but in action. >> i sat down with assistant secretary of state for education and cultural affairs elise satirefield and country singer and songwriter breelen who talk about the program. first, the importance to secretary blinken and to you as a cultural ambassador of bringing all these great musicians together and giving them ambassador status, which means a lot overseas and here at home, to go abroad and tell people more about america

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breelen, why do you and certainly a younger generation of musicians, but preceded by duke ellington andrt of this? >> yeah, as you said, i'm definitely standing on the shoulders of giants here some of the most iconic and influential artists of our times have been able to do exactly what it is that we are given the opportunity to do here. and i consider it to be a major honor. i just think for me within my career, beale a black artist in country music, my music is kind of different than a lot of the other music within the format. and i've always tried to build bridges domestically here in america between the different genres and i've traveled abroad and tried to build bridges in that way as well. and i think this is a really natural extension of something that is really important to me, which is using music to bring people together and unify communities. >> we want to bring together americans and people from all over the world to really highlight the point that we have more in common than we have that is different between us. and elevate music because it transcends borders and goes beyon

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